GSM Feature/Basic Phone APN Settings

Some feature phones will have their APN settings hard-coded so that they cannot be changed. If that's the case, a customer won't be able to get data on a device even if the compatibility checker may have indicated 2G data.

You're on the right page, Blair! A feature phone is just a term for cell phones that are not smart phones.

Why are they called feature phones? Way way back in the day, cell phones could pretty much only make and receive calls (Those were those huge bricks-with-antennas you mostly only see now in older movies.)

As the phone industry marched forward into the late 90s and early 2000s, however, phones were developed and advertised as having lots of "features", including the ability to text, surf the net, have a built-in day planner, play games, etc.

Once smartphones hit the scene, of course, those exciting features became just normal things that everyone expects phones to have now, so these days the term "feature phone" is mainly just used to identify phones that aren't smartphones.